Norman Withers
The Astronomer
★ Exclusive Cards
Cards played most by this investigator compared to all others.

Norman Withers deck only. Exhaust Livre d'Eibon: Swap the top card of your deck with a card in your hand. Exhaust Livre d'Eibon: Commit the top card of your deck to an eligible skill test performed by an investigator at your location.

After Research Librarian enters play: Search your deck for a Tome asset and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Exhaust Astronomical Atlas: Look at the top card of your deck. If it is not a weakness, attach it facedown to Astronomical Atlas (max 5 cards attached). : Commit a card attached to Astronomical Atlas to an eligible skill test. If that test succeeds, add that card to your hand instead of discarding it. (Limit once per test.)

Fight. Choose a Tome asset you control. You get +X for this attack, where X is that asset's printed cost. If you succeed, you may either automatically evade the attacked enemy, or after the attack ends, you may resolve an or ability on the chosen asset (ignoring its cost, if any).

Norman Withers deck only. Replacement. : Reveal the top card of the encounter deck. Exhaust Split the Angle and discard the top card of your deck: Discard the top card of the encounter deck.

Norman Withers deck only. Exhaust Livre d'Eibon: Swap the top card of your deck with a card in your hand. Exhaust Livre d'Eibon: Commit the top card of your deck to an eligible skill test performed by an investigator at your location.

If this skill test is successful while investigating a location, discover 1 additional clue at that location.

After Research Librarian enters play: Search your deck for a Tome asset and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Discard the top card of your deck. If that card is a weakness, shuffle it back into your deck. Otherwise, for the remainder of your turn, while that card is in your discard pile, commit it to each eligible skill test you perform.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Until the end of the round, you may use your in place of your and .

If this skill test is successful, the investigator performing this test searches the top 3 cards of his or her deck for a card, draws it, and shuffles his or her deck.

Exhaust Astronomical Atlas: Look at the top card of your deck. If it is not a weakness, attach it facedown to Astronomical Atlas (max 5 cards attached). : Commit a card attached to Astronomical Atlas to an eligible skill test. If that test succeeds, add that card to your hand instead of discarding it. (Limit once per test.)

You get +1 . After you successfully investigate: Gain 1 resource.

You get +1 , +1 , and -2 sanity. When you would be defeated by horror, discard St. Hubert's Key: Immediately heal 2 horror.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Choose an investigator at your location. Move that investigator to a connecting location.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.

Fast. Play when you draw a non-weakness treachery card. Cancel that card's revelation effect. Then, take 1 horror.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.

Fast. Play when an encounter card or an enemy attack would cause you to do one of the following (choose one): Discard cards from hand, lose resources, lose actions, take damage, or take horror. You ignore that aspect of the effect. (Each other aspect resolves normally.)

Uses (4 charges). : Investigate. For this investigation, you may use instead of , and you get +1 skill value. If you succeed, spend 1 or 2 charges. Instead of discovering a clue at your location, discover 1 clue at your location for each charge spent. If you succeed by 0, choose and discard a card from your hand.

Myriad. Astounding Revelation cannot be played. When you search your deck and Astounding Revelation is among the searched cards, discard it: Either gain 2 resources or place 1 secret on an asset you control. (Max one Research ability per search.)

Uses (3 charges). If Blur has charges remaining: Evade. For this evasion attempt, you may use instead of , and you get +1 skill value. If you succeed, spend 1 charge and you may take an additional action this turn. If you succeed by 0, take 1 damage.

Uses (4 charges). Spend 1 charge: Fight. This attack uses instead of and deals +1 damage. If a , , , , or symbol is revealed during this attack, take 1 horror.

Your maximum hand size is increased by 1. You have 1 additional hand slot, which can only be used to hold a Tome asset.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this skill test is successful during an investigation, place up to 3 charges and/or secrets on assets controlled by investigators at your location.

Fast. Play after an investigator discovers the last remaining clue at your location. Investigators at that location gain a total of X resources, distributed as you wish. X is that location's shroud value.

Commit to a skill test only if there is a clue at your location.

Gain 3 resources (4 resources instead if you have 10 or more other cards in hand). After you draw Cryptic Writings during your turn: Play it.

Fast. Play when an investigator at your location would draw a card from their deck or from the encounter deck. Name a card. If the drawn card is the named card, that investigator may either (choose one): - Cancel that card's effects and discard it. - Immediately play that card at -2 cost.

Fight. This attack uses . You deal +1 damage for this attack for each clue you have (max +3 damage).

Your maximum hand size is increased by 2. After Laboratory Assistant enters play: Draw 2 cards.

After you commit Promise of Power to a skill test, add 1 token to the chaos bag. If you cannot, take 2 horror instead.

Investigate. When this action begins, gain 2 resources.

For each clue you have (to a maximum of 3), either heal 2 horror from an investigator at your location or discard a Terror card at your location.

Gain 3 resources.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Discover 1 clue at your location.

Exhaust Pocket Telescope: Look at the revealed side of a connecting unrevealed location. : Investigate. Investigate a revealed connecting location as if you were there.

Limit 1 per deck. When you play a copy of Blood-Rite: Either change each "2" on it to a "3," or shuffle it into your deck instead of discarding it. Forced - After Occult Lexicon enters play: Search your bonded cards for 3 copies of Blood-Rite. Add 1 to your hand and shuffle the other 2 into your deck.

Fast. You get +1 while investigating.

Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase at deck creation. When you purchase In the Thick of It, suffer 2 total physical and/or mental trauma. Then, earn 3 experience.

Investigate. Add your value to your skill value for this investigation. You may ignore any effect or keyword on your location which would trigger during this investigation. If you succeed, discover 1 additional clue at this location. If a symbol was revealed during this investigation, return Read the Signs to your hand at the end of your turn.

If this skill test is successful, heal 1 horror.

After Medical Student enters play: Heal 1 damage and 1 horror from an investigator or Ally asset at your location.

Uses (4 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Investigate. You get +2 for this investigation. If you succeed by 2 or more, you may draw 1 card.

Before revealing chaos tokens for this test, choose one of the following symbols: (, , , or ). Ignore the effects of the chosen symbol during this test (including its modifier).

Max 1 committed per skill test.

Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Investigate. Investigate using instead of . If you succeed, discover 1 additional clue at this location. If an , "+1," or "0" token is revealed during this investigation, take 1 horror.

Fast. Play during a skill test at your location. Search the top 9 cards of your deck for a Practiced skill and commit it to this skill test, if able. Shuffle the remaining cards back into your deck. After this test ends, if it was successful, add that skill to your hand instead of discarding it.

Exhaust Old Book of Lore: Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator searches the top 3 cards of his or her deck for a card, draws it, and shuffles the remaining cards into his or her deck.

You get +1 . After Jeremiah Kirby enters play, choose "even" or "odd:" Reveal the top 5 cards of your deck. Draw each card with a cost that matches the chosen option. Shuffle the remaining cards into your deck.

Permanent. You have 1 additional ally slot.

Forced - After Arcane Initiate enters play: Place 1 doom on it. Exhaust Arcane Initiate: Search the top 3 cards of your deck for a Spell card and draw it. Shuffle your deck.

As an additional cost to play Occult Invocation, discard up to 2 cards from your hand. Fight. This attack uses instead of . You get +1 and deal +1 damage for this attack for each card discarded as part of this card's cost.

Reduce the difficulty of skill tests you perform during 'parley' actions by 2.

Permanent. When you purchase Arcane Research, suffer 1 mental trauma. After each scenario of a campaign, reduce the experience cost of the first Spell card you upgrade before the next scenario by 1.

After the last clue is discovered from your location: Place 1 resource (from the token pool) on this card, as evidence. (Limit once per game at each location.) While Hawk-Eye Folding Camera has ... - ... 1 or more evidence, you get +1 . - ... 2 or more evidence, you get +1 . - ... 3 or more evidence, you get +1 sanity.

Choose a non-Elite enemy at a revealed location up to 2 connections away. Swap places with that enemy.

Fight. Choose a Tome asset you control. You get +X for this attack, where X is that asset's printed cost. If you succeed, you may either automatically evade the attacked enemy, or after the attack ends, you may resolve an or ability on the chosen asset (ignoring its cost, if any).

For each of your arcane slots that are empty, you have one additional hand slot. You may take an additional action during your turn, which can only be used to play an asset into one of your hand slots.

After Art Student enters play: Discover 1 clue at your location.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card (2 cards instead if it succeeds by 2 or more).

Norman Withers deck only. Replacement. : Reveal the top card of the encounter deck. Exhaust Split the Angle and discard the top card of your deck: Discard the top card of the encounter deck.

Investigate. You may cancel the first chaos token revealed for this skill test, return it to the bag, and reveal a new one. If you succeed at this skill test, place 1 charge or secret on an asset controlled by an investigator at your location (if you succeed by exactly 1 or 3, place 2 charges or secrets on that asset instead).

Uses (1 charge). Replenish this charge at the start of each round. You may resolve abilities on Spell assets in your hand by revealing them from your hand. Treat True Magick as if it were the revealed asset (to pay its costs, spend charges, perfom its effect, etc).

Limit 1 Mask per investigator. Uses (2 offerings). Replenish 1 of these offerings after you reveal a location or put a new location into play. Spend 1 offering: You get +2 or +2 for this skill test. (Limit once per test.)

After you reveal a non- symbol on a chaos token during a skill test you are perfoming, deal 1 damage to Heavy Furs: Cancel that chaos token and return it to the bag. Reveal a new chaos token.

Play only if there is a clue on your location. Draw 3 cards.

Uses (3 supplies). Exhaust Fingerprint Kit and spend 1 supply: Investigate. You get +1 for this investigation. If you succeed, you discover 1 additional clue at your location.

Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Cryptographic Cipher and spend 1 secret: Investigate. Your location gets +1 shroud for this investigation. Exhaust Cryptographic Cipher and spend 1 secret: Investigate. Your location gets -2 shroud for this investigation.

Uses (3 charges). Exhaust Scrying and spend 1 charge: Look at the top 3 cards of any investigator's deck or the encounter deck. Return them to the top of that deck in any order.

Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase at deck creation. Increase your deck size by 15. During each upkeep phase, instead of drawing 1 card, draw 2 cards and discard 1 of them.

Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Scroll of Secrets and spend 1 secret: Look at the bottom card of any investigator's deck or the encounter deck. Then, either discard that card, add it to its owner's hand, place it on the bottom of its deck, or place it on the top of its deck.

Evade. You may use instead of for this evasion attempt. If you succeed and the enemy is non-Elite, attach Transmogrify to it. Attached enemy gains: "Massive. Cannot move. After you evade this enemy: Discover 1 clue at its location. (Limit once per round.)"

Fast. Play after you discover the last clue at your location. Discover 2 clues at a location with a lower printed shroud value than your location.

As an additional cost to play Thorough Inquiry, spend an action. Investigators at your location draw a combined total of 5 cards (you decide how many cards each investigator draws).

Exhaust Chemistry Set: Investigate. If you... - ...fail by exactly 2, discard Chemistry Set. - ...succeed by exactly 0, gain 2 resources. - ...succeed by exactly 2, draw 1 card. - ...succeed by exactly 4, discover 1 additional clue at your location.

While Occult Theory is in your hand or committed to a skill test, it gains icons equal to your , and icons equal to your .

Permanent. You get +5 Deck Size. Your investigator's Deckbuilding Options gain: "one other level 0 card from any class ([guardian], [seeker], [rogue], [mystic], or [survivor])."

You get +1 and +1 while resolving an ability on a treachery card. After you succeed at a skill test while resolving an ability on a treachery card, exhaust Tooth of Eztli: Draw 1 card.

If this skill test is successful, ready an Ally asset at your location and heal 1 damage and 1 horror from it.

Choose an investigator at your location and test (2). If you succeed, heal 1 damage from that investigator. If you fail, deal 1 damage to that investigator.

You get +1 .

Investigate. If you succeed, instead of discovering a clue at your location, discover a clue at a connecting location.

Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Choose a Tome or Spell asset you control, or reveal a Tome or Spell asset from your hand. Resolve an or ability on that asset, ignoring all costs (including its cost, if any). Then, if that asset was in your hand, you may discard it to draw 1 card.

Exhaust De Vermis Mysteriis and place 1 doom on it: Play a Spell or Insight event from your discard pile, reducing its resource cost by 1. After that event resolves, remove it from the game.

You get +1 . After a skill test at your location begins, exhaust Crystal Pendulum: Name a number. If this test succeeds by that number or fails by that number, draw 1 card.

Uses (2 charges). Charges on Lost Arcana may be spent as if they were charges on Spell and Ritual assets you control. After the last clue is discovered from your location, exhaust Lost Arcana: Place 1 charge on this card.

While you have 4 or more cards in hand, Curiosity gains (while you have 7 or more cards in hand, Curiosity gains , instead).

Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Feed the Mind and spend 1 secret: Test (1). For each point you succeed by (to a maximum of 3), draw 1 card.

After you move to a location, if that location has at least 1 clue on it, exhaust Fieldwork: You get +2 skill value for the next skill test you perform this phase.

Play only if you are not engaged with an enemy. Move. Choose an unrevealed location. Move (one location at a time) along the shortest path toward that location, until you enter that location. End this effect if you reveal a location, if an enemy engages you, or if your movement is blocked.

Exceptional. You get +1 . Play with the top card of the encounter deck revealed.

Uses (2 resources). Replenish these resources at the start of each round. Resources on Sleuth may be spent to pay for Charm, Tactic, or Tome cards. During a skill test on a Charm, Tactic, or Tome card, spend 1 resource from Sleuth: You get +1 skill value for this test.

If this skill test is during or before the first action of this turn, Plan of Action gains . If this skill test is between the first and third actions of this turn, draw 1 card if it succeeds. If this skill test is during or after the third action of this turn, Plan of Action gains .

While you have 5 or more cards in your hand, Higher Education gains: " Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test."

Shuffle your discard pile into your deck and draw 1 card. Remove Quantum Flux from the game.

Choose another investigator at your location who has yet to take their turn this round. During their turn this round, the chosen investigator gets +1 to each of their skills, and may take an additional action. Playing Guidance does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

During your turn, remove Ace of Rods from the game: You may take an additional action this turn, during which you get +2 to each of your skills. When the game begins, if Ace of Rods is in your opening hand: Put it into play.

After Nkosi Mabati enters play: Name a non- chaos token with a symbol. Until this card leaves play, the named symbol is your "sigil." When an investigator at your location reveals a , , or symbol, exhaust Nkosi Mabati: Search the chaos bag for your sigil and reveal it, instead (returning the other token to the chaos bag).

Exhaust Encyclopedia: Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator gets +2 to a skill of your choice until the end of the phase.

While there are 3 or more doom in play, Prophesy gains (while there are 6 or more doom in play, Prophesy gains , instead).

Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Mr. "Rook" and spend 1 secret: Search the top 3, 6, or 9 cards of your deck for any card and draw it. If at least 1 weakness is among the searched cards, draw 1 of them, as well. Shuffle your deck.

As an additional cost to play Testing Sprint, spend an action. Investigate. One at a time, investigate your location and each connecting location once each in ascending order of shroud, until you either fail to investigate or successfully investigate each eligible location.

Fight. Add your value to your skill value for this attack. Immediately before this attack, you may engage the attacked enemy. This attack deals +1 damage (+2 damage instead if the enemy is non-Elite). If a symbol was revealed during this attack, return Spectral Razor to your hand at the end of your turn.

Name a Spell card. Search your deck for 1 copy of the named card and draw it. Shuffle your deck.

Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator searches the top 6 cards of his or her deck for a card, draws it, and shuffles his or her deck.

In player order, each investigator draws 1 card from the top of the encounter deck. Then, add Delve Too Deep to the victory display.

Do not reveal chaos tokens from the chaos bag for this test. Treat the chaos token revealed for this test as an . When this test ends, remove Seal of the Elder Sign from the game.

Reduce the cost to play Extensive Research by 1 for each other card in your hand. Discover 2 clues at your location.

When a non-Elite enemy spawns at your location, discard Disc of Itzamna: Discard that enemy.

After Backpack enters play: Search the top 6 cards of your deck for up to 3 non-weakness Item or Supply cards, and attach them facedown to Backpack. Shuffle your deck. Cards attached to Backpack may be played as if they were in your hand. If there are no cards attached to Backpack, discard it.

Uses (3 offerings). If there are no offerings on Offering Bowl, discard it. Spend 1 offering and exhaust Offering Bowl: Take 1 damage and gain 2 resources.

After you play Psychology Student: Heal 2 horror from an investigator or Ally asset at your location.

Starting. (You may begin the game with 1 copy of a starting card in your opening hand.) Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test (+2 instead if this is an investigation or parley). Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test (+2 instead if this is an investigation or parley).

Uses (0 resources). Resources on Mortar and Pestle may be spent to pay for Spell cards. After you discover 1 or more clues, exhaust Mortar and Pestle: Place 1 resource on it (from the token pool).

Fight. This attack uses instead of . If you succeed, instead of its standard damage, this attack deals 2 damage to each enemy at the attacked enemy's location (any additional damage is dealt to the attacked enemy). If a , , , , or token is revealed during this attack, deal 1 damage to each investigator at the attacked enemy's location.

Choose an Ally asset you control and return it to your hand. Then, search the top 9 cards of your deck for an Ally asset and play it, reducing its cost by X. X is the cost of the Ally asset returned to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

While you control a Tome or Relic asset, you get +1 . After you reveal a location or put a new location into play, exhaust Whitton Greene: Search the top 6 cards of your deck for a Tome or Relic asset and draw it. Shuffle your deck.

If this skill test is successful, the performing investigator searches the top 6 cards of their deck for an Insight event, draws it, and shuffles their deck.

Place 1 of your clues on your location. Then, heal 3 damage from an investigator or Ally asset at your location.

Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Evade. This evasion attempt uses instead of . You get +2 for this evasion attempt. If you succeed, deal 1 damage to the evaded enemy. If an , "+1," or "0" token is revealed during this evasion attempt, lose 1 resource.

Parley. Choose a non-Elite enemy at your location and either (choose one): - Automatically evade that enemy and place 1 doom on it. It cannot take damage for the remainder of the round. Discover 1 clue at your location. - If that enemy has 1 or more doom on it, defeat it. Gain 1 resource for each doom that was on it.

Commit only to a skill test from an ability printed on a scenario card.
If this skill test is successful, discover 1 clue at your location.

Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Investigate. Investigate using instead of . If you succeed, discover 1 additional clue at this location. If a , , , , or symbol is revealed during this test, after this test resolves lose all remaining actions and immediately end your turn.

Evade. This evasion attempt uses instead of . If you succeed, deal 1 damage to the enemy just evaded. If a , , , , or symbol is revealed during this evasion attempt, lose 1 action this turn.

Discard a card with at least 1 skill icon from your hand: Place 1 resource on Archaic Glyphs from the token pool, as a secret. Forced - After the third secret is placed on Archaic Glyphs: Discard Archaic Glyphs and gain 5 resources. Record in your Campaign Log that "you have translated the glyphs."

Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply: Investigate. Your location gets -2 shroud for this investigation.

Customizable. Limit 1 per investigator. Forced - At the start of the round: Choose one of the following criteria for this round - You fail a test by 2 or more. - You succeed at a test by 3 or more. When the chosen criteria is met, you may exhaust Empirical Hypothesis to add 1 evidence to it. Spend 1 evidence: Draw 1 card.

You get +1 . When the game begins, if Four of Cups is in your opening hand: Put it into play.

Uses (4 charges). Spend 1 charge: Fight. This attack uses instead of and deals +1 damage. If an , "+1," or "0" token is revealed during this attack, take 1 damage.

Seal (). Uses (7 charges). If Seal of the Seventh Sign has no charges, or if it leaves play, remove it from the game. Forced - After a , , , or token is revealed during any skill test: Remove 1 charge from Seal of the Seventh Sign.

Uses (4 charges). : Test (1). For each point you succeed by, you may spend 1 charge to heal 1 damage or 1 horror from an investigator at your location. If you succeed by 0, lose 1 resource.

Draw the top card of the encounter deck. Then, discover 2 clues at your location.

Uses (6 charges). : Fight. For this attack, you may use instead of , and you get +1 skill value. If you succeed, spend 1 or 2 charges. Instead of its standard damage, this attack deals 1 damage for each charge spent. If you succeed by 0, lose 1 action.

Attach to your location. Non-Elite enemies cannot move into attached location. Forced - When an investigator leaves attached location: Discard Barricade.

Evade. This evasion attempt uses instead of . If you succeed and the enemy is non‑Elite, evade it and attach Bind Monster to it. When attached enemy would ready: Test (3). If you succeed, attached enemy does not ready. If you fail, discard Bind Monster.

Myriad. Uses (3 secrets). When you would test your , , or , spend 1 secret: Test your instead. Discard a copy of Mind's Eye from your hand: Place 2 secrets on this copy of Mind's Eye.

If Timeworn Brand is ready: Fight. You get +2 and deal +1 damage for this attack. Exhaust Timeworn Brand: Fight. Add your to your skill value for this attack. This attack deals +3 damage. If this attack defeats an Elite enemy, draw 3 cards. (Max once per game.)

After you commit Ghastly Possession to a skill test on an asset, choose one: - Place 1 doom on that asset. Ghastly Possession gains . - If this test is successful, either remove 1 doom from this asset, or replenish half of its uses (rounded down).

Uses (3 secrets). When you successfully investigate, exhaust Professor William Webb and spend 1 secret: Choose an Item card in your discard pile and add it to your hand. Instead of discovering a clue at your location, you may discover a clue at a connecting location.

You may include up to 4 copies of Sled Dog in your deck. Up to 2 Sled Dog cards take up a single ally slot. Exhaust X Sled Dogs: Move. Move X times. Exhaust X Sled Dogs: Fight. You get +X for this attack. Instead of its standard damage, this attack deals X damage.

Customizable. As an additional cost to play Summoned Servitor, you must discard another asset you control. Summoned Servitor enters play at your location. It can take 1 action during each of your turns, which can only be used to take the following action: - Move Summoned Servitor to a connecting revealed location.

As an additional cost to play Deep Knowledge, add 2 tokens to the chaos bag. Investigators at your location draw a combined total of 3 cards (you decide how many cards each investigator draws).

Limit 1 per deck. As an additional cost to play this asset, place 1 resource on 4 different locations, as leylines. After you successfully investigate a location with a leyline, exhaust this asset: Move that leyline onto this asset. Then, if there are 4 leylines on it, discard it, take its leylines as resources, and record in your Campaign Log that "you have identified the gateway."

Gain 1 resource. Reveal 3 random tokens from the chaos bag. For each , , , , or symbol revealed, gain an additional 2 resources.

: Fight. This attack uses instead of . If a , , , or symbol is revealed during this attack, the attacked enemy gets -1 fight and -1 evade for the remainder of the turn (to a minimum of 1).

After Dr. Elli Horowitz enters play: Search the top 9 cards of your deck for a Relic asset and attach it to her. Shuffle your deck. Each Relic asset attached to Dr. Elli Horowitz does not take up any slots (it is still considered to be in play and under your control).

Anytime you reveal a , , or symbol during a skill test, you may choose to use the following effects instead of that symbol's normal effects: : -1. The Black Cat takes 1 direct damage. : -1. The Black Cat takes 1 direct horror. : +5. Heal all damage and horror from The Black Cat.

While you have... - ...5 or more cards in hand, you get +1 . - ...10 or more cards in hand, you get +1 . - ...15 or more cards in hand, you get +1 .

Myriad. Fast. Play only during your turn. Attach to your location. Group limit 3 in play. Investigators may move between any two locations with an attached Open Gate as if the locations were connected.

Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Anytime you upgrade a card with the (Unidentified) or (Untranslated) subtitle, you may upgrade a second copy of that card at no experience cost. If you do, the two upgraded versions are chosen at random from among the eligible options. (You must still meet all deckbuilding restrictions.)

Move. Move to any revealed location and reveal a random token from the chaos bag. If you reveal a , , , , or symbol, you must discard an Item or Ally asset you control (if you cannot, take 1 damage).

As an additional cost to play Bide Your Time, spend an action. During your next turn, you may take two additional actions.

For each of your arcane slots that is filled, either heal 1 damage or 1 horror.

Play only if there is a clue on your location.
Place 2 secrets on an asset you control.

After revealing a chaos token for this skill test, you may place 1 of your clues on your location to cancel that chaos token, return it to the chaos bag, and reveal a new one. (You may do this any number of times.)

Uses (3 charges). Exhaust Enchanted Bow: Fight. You must use either or instead of and get +1 skill value for this attack. This attack deals +1 damage. As an additional cost to initiate this ability, you may spend 1 charge to have this attack target a non-Elite enemy at a connecting location; if you do, ignore the aloof and retaliate keywords for this attack.

Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Heal 1 horror from an investigator at your location.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.

Myriad. Seal (, , , or ). Uses (3 charges). Forced - When your turn begins: You must spend 1 charge or discard Sign of Xelotaph. Discard a copy of Sign of Xelotaph from your hand: Replenish all charges on this copy of Sign of Xelotaph.

Max twice per game. Play only if there are 10 or more cards in the encounter deck. Search your bonded cards for 1 copy of The Stars Are Right and shuffle it into the top 10 cards of the encounter deck.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.

Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test.

Test (4). If you succeed, discard Strange Solution and draw 2 cards. Record in your Campaign Log that "you have identified the solution."

Place 2 charges on an asset you control. After you draw Winds of Power during your turn: Play it.

You get +1 . Exhaust Alyssa Graham: Look at the top card of either the encounter deck or any player deck. You may then add 1 doom to Alyssa Graham to place the looked-at card on the bottom of its deck.

Parley. Choose a non-weakness Humanoid enemy at your location and test (3). This test gets +X difficulty, where X is that enemy's horror value. If you succeed, shuffle the chosen enemy into the encounter deck. If the chosen enemy is Elite, automatically evade it instead.

Fast. Play during any investigator's turn. Play only if you have 5 or more remaining sanity. Choose a non-Elite enemy at your location. Until the end of the active investigator's turn, that enemy gets -2 fight and -2 evade.

When any investigator draws an encounter card from the encounter deck, exhaust Dr. William T. Maleson and place 1 of your clues on your location: That investigator draws another card from the top of the encounter deck, chooses one of those 2 cards to resolve, and cancels and discards the other.

Investigate. Add your or to your skill value for this investigation. If you succeed, instead of discovering clues at this location, attach Map the Area to it. Limit 1 per location. Reduce the difficulty of all skill tests at attached location by 1.

Seal (, , , or ). Forced - After you reveal an symbol during a skill test: Return The Chthonian Stone to your hand.

Uses (2 resources). Replenish these resources at the start of each round. Resources on Antiquary may be spent to pay for Favor, Relic or Ritual cards. During a skill test on a Favor, Relic or Ritual card, spend 1 resource from Antiquary: You get +1 skill value for this test.

One at a time, in any order, if you control a... - [rogue] card, you may move to a connecting location. - [guardian] card, deal 1 damage to an enemy at your location. - [seeker] card, discover 1 clue at your location. - [mystic] card, heal 1 horror from any card. - [survivor] card, heal 1 damage from any card.

Fast. Play after an Ally asset at your location is discarded by a card effect or is defeated. Either return that asset to its owner's hand, or its owner draws 3 cards.

You have 2 additional ally slots, which can only be used to hold Creature assets. When you play a Creature asset during your turn: Reduce that asset's cost by 1.

Only the first copy of each card in your hand counts toward your maximum hand size. After you draw a copy of a card that is already in your hand, reveal both copies and exhaust Dream-Enhancing Serum: Draw 1 card.

You get +1 arcane slot for each enemy beneath Binder's Jar. After a non-Elite enemy is defeated at your location: Place that enemy facedown beneath Binder's Jar (limit 2 enemies beneath it). When an enemy attacks you, discard an enemy beneath Binder's Jar that shares a Trait with the attacking enemy: Cancel that attack.

Uses (4 charges). If Grotesque Statue has no charges, discard it. When you would reveal a chaos token, spend 1 charge: Reveal 2 chaos tokens instead of 1. Choose 1 of those tokens to resolve, and ignore the other.

Uses (4 charges). Spend 1 charge: Heal 2 damage from among investigators at your location.

Uses (3 charges). : Fight. You get +1 for this attack. As an additional cost to initiate this ability, you may spend 1 charge to empower the blade. If you do, you get +1 and deal +1 damage for this attack.

You may take an additional action during your turn.

Fast. You have 1 additional arcane slot, which can only be used to hold a Spell or Ritual asset.

Uses (4 secrets). If Forbidden Knowledge has no secrets, discard it. Exhaust Forbidden Knowledge and take 1 horror: Move 1 secret from Forbidden Knowledge to your resource pool, as a resource.

Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Investigate. Investigate using instead of . If you succeed, discover 1 additional clue at this location. If a token is revealed during this investigation, you may discover 1 clue at a connecting location or place 1 charge on Eye of Chaos.

Customizable. When you purchase Living Ink, choose a skill and circle it on its upgrade sheet. Uses (3 charges). Remove 1 charge from Living Ink at the start of each of your turns. If Living Ink has no charges, discard it. You get +1 to the chosen skill(s).

: Fight. You get +1 for this attack. If you succeed, you may spend 1 additional action to deal +1 damage for this attack.

Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Fight. This attack uses instead of and deals +1 damage. If a token is revealed during this attack, you may deal 1 damage to an enemy at your location or place 1 charge on Armageddon.

Seal (+1 or ). You get +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 .

Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase at deck creation. After each scenario of a campaign, reduce the experience cost of the first 2 cards you upgrade before the next scenario by 1. Increase the experience cost for you to purchase new cards by 1.

After you spend 1 or more charges from a Spell asset, exhaust Twila Katherine Price: Place 1 charge on that asset.

Fast. Play when an enemy attacks an investigator at your location. Cancel that attack. Then, reveal a random token from the chaos bag. If it has a , , , , or symbol, deal the attacking enemy's damage to itself.

Fast. Play after a location enters play or is revealed during an investigator's turn. Until the end of the active investigator's turn, that location gets -1 shroud. You may move 1 clue to that location from any other location.

Discover 3 clues at your location. Give any number of your clues to another investigator, or place any number of your clues on any location. You are defeated and suffer 1 mental trauma. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

Group limit 2 copies of Protective Incantation in play. Seal (any except ). Forced - At the end of your turn: You must either spend 1 resource or discard Protective Incantation.

When you play a Spell card, exhaust Robes of Endless Night: Reduce the cost of that card by 1. Playing that card does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

When you play a card, exhaust The Fool • 0: Reduce that card's cost by 1. When the game begins, if The Fool • 0 is in your opening hand: Put it into play.

Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply, exhaust Thermos: Heal 1 damage from an investigator at your location (2 damage instead if he or she has 2 or more physical trauma). Spend 1 supply, exhaust Thermos: Heal 1 horror from an investigator at your location (2 horror instead if he or she has 2 or more mental trauma).

As an additional cost to play Summoned Hound, you must search your bonded cards for 1 copy of Unbound Beast and shuffle it into your deck. During your turn, except during an action, exhaust Summoned Hound: Fight/Investigate. Either attack with a base skill of 5, or investigate with a base skill of 5.

Uses (3 secrets). : Attach a non-weakness Spell event from your hand to Dayana Esperence. Limit 1 event attached to her. The attached event may be played as if it were in your hand. It is not placed in your discard pile after it is played (it remains attached). As an additional cost to play the attached event, exhaust Dayana Esperence and spend 1 secret.

Evade. Use only on a non-Elite enemy. This evasion attempt uses instead of . If you succeed, move the enemy just evaded to any location in play. If you succeed and a , , , or symbol was revealed during this evasion attempt, that enemy does not ready during the next upkeep phase.

Fast. Play when the "draw encounter cards" step of the mythos phase would begin. You draw each encounter card that would normally be drawn this mythos phase. Cards drawn during this mythos phase cannot be cancelled, and the first card drawn gains surge. Skip the "draw encounter cards" step of the next mythos phase. Max twice per game.

Permanent. Exceptional. When you purchase this card, choose a non-signature Spell asset in your deck and record [spell's name] was branded in your campaign log. This is your branded spell. Your deck cannot include more than 1 copy of your branded spell. Before you draw your opening hand: Search your deck for your branded spell and play it (paying its cost).

Customizable. Uses (4 aether). If Hyperphysical Shotcaster has no aether, discard it. Spend 1 aether: Resolve the Manifest ability of the Hyperphysical Shotcaster's current form. Exhaust Hyperphysical Shotcaster: Change its form (to one you have unlocked on its upgrade sheet).

Uses (4 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator draws 3 cards, then discards 1 card from their hand.

Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Evade. This evasion attempt uses instead of . If you succeed and the evaded enemy is non-Elite, you may move that enemy to a connecting location. If a token is revealed during this evasion attempt, you may move to a connecting location or place 1 charge on Shroud of Shadows.

You get +1 during evasion attempts.

Uses (4 charges). Spend 1 charge: Evade. This evasion attempt uses instead of . If you succeed, after evading the chosen enemy, you may move to a connecting location. If a , , , , or symbol is revealed during this evasion attempt, choose and discard a card from your hand.

Before you play Explosive Ward, you may discard any number of cards from your arcane slots. Deal X damage to a non-Elite enemy engaged with you. X cannot be greater than the number of empty arcane slots you have. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

After a , , , , or symbol is revealed during a skill test at your location, exhaust Jewel of Aureolus: Draw 1 card or gain 2 resources.

Look at the top 6 cards of an investigator's deck or the encounter deck. You may either return them to the top of that deck in any order, or shuffle them into that deck. If you looked at an investigator's deck, that investigator may draw 1 card.

Fast. Play when a , , , or chaos token is revealed during a skill test at your location. Cancel that chaos token. (Do not reveal a new chaos token to replace it.)

You have 1 additional arcane slot. : Fight. You get +1 for this attack for each of your arcane slots that is filled. If at least 2 of your arcane slots are filled, this attack deals +1 damage.

Customizable. When you purchase The Raven Quill, name a Tome or Spell asset and record that name on its upgrade sheet. Attach to a named asset you control. When you resign or the game ends: Either mark a checkbox on The Raven Quill's upgrade sheet, or reduce the experience cost to upgrade the attached asset before the next scenario by 1.

Uses (1 charge for each class among cards you control, including this one). Spend 1 charge and exhaust Close the Circle: Take a basic action. For each skill test performed during that action, you may use your instead of the skill indicated for that action.

Search the top 6 cards of your deck. You may place up to 3 of your clues on your location. For each clue placed in this way, choose and add 2 of the searched cards to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

: Fight. You get +1 for this attack. Discard Knife: Fight. You get +2 for this attack. This attack deals +1 damage.

: Investigate. Investigate using instead of . If a , , , or symbol is revealed during this test, you may choose a revealed location connected to your location; you are now investigating as if you were at the chosen location instead of your location (you may use either shroud value).

Playing Sword Cane does not provoke attacks of opportunity. After Sword Cane enters play: Immediately trigger its "" ability without paying its cost. Exhaust Sword Cane: Fight/Evade. You may use your in place of your or for this attack or evasion attempt.

You have 1 additional arcane slot. Exhaust Book of Shadows: Add 1 charge to a Spell asset you control.

Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Eldritch Sophist: Move 1 secret or charge from an asset you control to another asset controlled by an investigator at your location.

Uses (4 charges). You may play events with "parley" from your discard pile as if they were in your hand. As an additional cost to play an event this way, spend 1 charge from Eldritch Tongue. After that event resolves, remove it from the game.

Fast. Limit 1 Composure in play. You get +1 skill value during skill tests on Spell cards. Non-direct damage/horror must be assigned to Grounded before it can be assigned to your investigator card. During a skill test on a Spell card, spend 1 resource: You get +1 skill value for this test.

When you would reveal a chaos token, exhaust Olive McBride: Reveal 4 chaos tokens instead of 1. Choose 2 of those tokens to resolve, and ignore the rest.

Discard a [mystic] asset you control. Then, draw 3 cards or gain 3 resources, or any combination thereof.

Uses (4 secrets). Exhaust Scroll of Secrets and spend 1 secret: Look at the top or bottom card of any investigator's deck or the encounter deck. Then, either discard that card, add it to its owner's hand, place it on the bottom of its deck, or place it on top of its deck.

Uses (4 secrets). After a skill test at your location begins, exhaust Scrying Mirror and spend 1 secret: Perform the "reveal chaos token" step of the test now (before committing cards), instead of after committing cards.

Play a Spell or Ritual card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 3.

Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply, exhaust Painkillers, and take 1 horror: Heal 1 damage.

Uses (2 resources). Replenish these resources at the start of each round. Resources on Prophetic may be spent to pay for Fortune, Spell, or Spirit cards. During a skill test on a Fortune, Spell, or Spirit card, spend 1 resource from Prophetic: You get +1 skill value for this test.

After you commit a card to a skill test, exhaust Grisly Totem: That card gains another instance of one of its skill icons of your choice.

While your current location is connected to at least 2 other locations, you get +1 and +1 . While your current location is connected to at least 4 other locations, you get an additional +1 and +1 .

Permanent. You have 1 additional accessory slot.

After a , , , or symbol is revealed during a test you are performing: You get +1 skill value for this test.

Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase only at deck creation. You earn 1 additional experience after each scenario of this campaign. If you are defeated, you are usurped by the homunculus (replace each signature card in your deck with a random basic weakness, flip this card, and swap it with your investigator for the remainder of the campaign).

You have 1 additional arcane slot. Your arcane slots can be used to hold cards that take up accessory slots, and vice versa. When the game begins, if The Hierophant • V is in your opening hand: Put it into play.

Customizable. Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply: Choose an investigator at your location and test (1). If you succeed, that investigator performs one of the following options - - Draw 2 cards. - Gain 2 resources.

Customizable. Fast. Play only during your turn. Attach to a non-Elite enemy at your location. If attached enemy is at your location: Parley. Give it a command (limit once per round per command) - - "Go." This enemy moves once in a direction of your choice. - "Cower." This enemy exhausts.

Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply, exhaust Smoking Pipe, and take 1 damage: Heal 1 horror.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Play Talisman of Protection under the control of any investigator at your location. When you assign damage and/or horror that would defeat you, discard Talisman of Protection: Cancel up to 2 of that damage and/or horror.

Fast. Play immediately after an investigator at your location finishes resolving an action during his or her turn. Undo that action (return the game state to exactly the way it was before that action was performed, except for the playing of Time Warp and its costs).

Investigate. Choose a [seeker] asset in your hand. The difficulty of this skill test is equal to the chosen asset's printed cost. If you succeed, instead of discovering clues, put the chosen asset into play. If that asset has the Relic trait, draw 1 card.

Uses (3 charges). Exhaust Alchemical Transmutation, spend 1 charge: Test (1). For each point you succeed by, gain 1 resource (to a maximum of 3). If a , , , , or symbol is revealed during this test, take 1 damage.

Add 1 doom to Blood Pact: You get +2 for this skill test. (Limit once per test.) Add 1 doom to Blood Pact: You get +2 for this skill test. (Limit once per test.)


: Fight. Either use your or get +1 for this attack. When you initiate this ability, choose one - - Exhaust Ceremonial Sickle and place 1 doom on it to get +1 skill value and deal +1 damage for this attack. - If this attack defeats an enemy, remove 1 doom from Ceremonial Sickle.

You may spend resources to pay for Item assets played by other investigators at your location. Exhaust Charles Ross, Esq.: Reduce the cost of the next Item asset played by an investigator at your location by 1.

: Add 1 token to the chaos bag. If there are 10 tokens in the chaos bag, discard Cryptic Grimoire: Record in your Campaign Log that "you have translated the grimoire." Replace 5 tokens in the chaos bag with 5 tokens.

When a second token is revealed during a single skill test at your location, exhaust Curse of Aeons: Cancel that token and treat it as if it were a token instead. You may choose to remove both of those tokens from the chaos bag after the test ends.

: Fight. Add your to your skill value for this attack. You deal +1 damage for this attack. If you succeed and the enemy is non-Elite, you may move it one location away from you. (If you succeed by 3 or more, you instead deal +2 damage and may move the enemy up to two locations away from you.)

Fast. Play when you would reveal a chaos token. Reveal 5 chaos tokens instead of 1. Choose one of those tokens with a , , , , or symbol to resolve, and ignore the rest. (If no such token is revealed, choose any one of those tokens to resolve, and ignore the rest.)

While David Renfield has at least 1 doom on him, you get +1 . Exhaust David Renfield: You may place 1 doom on David Renfield. Gain 1 resource for each doom on David Renfield.

Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.

After an enemy at your location is defeated: Place 1 resource (from the token pool) on this card, as evidence. While Dissection Tools has... - ... 1 or more evidence, you get +1 . - ... 2 or more evidence, you get +1 . - ... 3 or more evidence, you get +1 sanity.

: Search your bonded cards for Essence of the Dream and add it to your hand. After you succeed by 3 or more during a skill test to which Essence of the Dream is committed: Record in your Campaign Log that "you have interpreted the dreams."


Fast. Play when you would resolve an effect on a [mystic] card that triggers "when," "if," or "after" a , , , , or symbol is revealed. Either cancel that effect, or resolve it an additional time.

Choose an investigator at your location. Heal 2 damage from that investigator or from an Ally asset he or she controls.

Myriad. Limit 1 Empower Self (Stamina) per deck. Up to 3 Empower Self cards take up a single arcane slot. Anytime a card effect requires you to use instead of , you may ignore that aspect of the effect. Exhaust Empower Self: You get +2 for this test.

Evade. Add your value to your skill value for this evasion attempt. If you succeed, disengage from each other enemy engaged with you, and for the remainder of the round, you are ethereal (enemies cannot engage or be engaged with you, and you cannot attack or deal damage to enemies). If a symbol was revealed during this evasion attempt, return Ethereal Form to your hand at the end of your turn.

Fast. Seal (up to 3 ). If there are no tokens sealed on Favor of the Moon, discard it. When you would reveal a chaos token from the chaos bag, exhaust Favor of the Moon: Resolve a token sealed here instead, as if it were just revealed from the chaos bag. Then, gain 1 resource.

Uses (5 secrets). Exhaust Forbidden Tome and spend 1 secret: Draw 1 card. Then, if you have 10 or more cards in your hand and there are no secrets on Forbidden Tome, you may discard it to record in your Campaign Log that "you have translated the tome."

: Choose an investigator at your location and either (choose one) - - Exhaust Hallowed Chalice and place 1 doom on it to heal 2 damage or 2 horror from that investigator. - Heal 1 damage or 1 horror from that investigator. If you heal the last damage or horror from that investigator, remove 1 doom from Hallowed Chalice.

You get +1 and +1 . You get -1 and -1 for each weakness beneath Ikiaq. When an investigator at your location draws a basic weakness, exhaust Ikiaq: Cancel that weakness's effects and place it facedown beneath Ikiaq. Its owner must draw it if Ikiaq leaves play.

You get +1 to each of your skills for each horror on Key of Ys. Forced - When any amount of horror would be placed on you: Place 1 of that horror on Key of Ys. Forced - When Key of Ys leaves play: Discard the top 10 cards of your deck.

Fast. Play after a phase begins. Choose a non-Elite enemy at your location. Treat the chosen enemy's printed text box as if it were blank (except for Traits) until the end of the phase.

Play only if there are no enemies at your location. Heal 3 horror and draw 1 card.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Remove all doom from a non-Elite card at your location.

Permanent. Limit 1 per investigator. Before setting up each game, draw 3 random cards from the tarot deck and choose 1. Place the chosen card in front of you, in the upright position. Each other investigator ignores its effects. Shuffle the rest back into the tarot deck.

Uses (1 ammo). Limit 1 ammo on Ornate Bow. Spend 1 ammo: Fight. This attack uses instead of . You get +2 and deal +2 damage for this attack. : You nock another arrow. Place 1 ammo on Ornate Bow.

Permanent. Limit 1 Covenant per deck. After an investigator at your location performs the "reveal the chaos token" step of a skill test, if both a token and a token were revealed during that test, exhaust Paradoxical Covenant: This test automatically succeeds. (Remove each and token revealed from the chaos bag after this test ends.)

Fast. Play during any player window. Put Premonition into play, reveal a random chaos token from the chaos bag, and seal it on Premonition. Forced - When a chaos token would be revealed from the chaos bag: Resolve the token sealed here as if it were just revealed from the chaos bag, instead. Then, discard Premonition.

Max 1 committed per skill test. After you commit Prescient to a skill test, name "even," "odd," or "symbol." After this test ends, if a chaos token of the named type was revealed during this test, you may return a Spell card from your discard pile to your hand.

If this skill test is successful by 2 or more, after it resolves, you may immediately take an action as if it were your turn (this action does not count toward the number of actions you can take each turn).

When a skill test you are performing begins, if Recall the Future is ready, name a chaos token: If the named chaos token is revealed during this skill test, exhaust Recall the Future. Then, you get +2 skill value for this skill test.

Choose a Spell or Relic asset controlled by an investigator at your location and reveal a random chaos token from the chaos bag. If you reveal a , , , , or symbol, discard the chosen asset. Otherwise, add 3 charges to the chosen asset.

Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.

As an additional cost to play Refine, spend an action. Immediately mark a checkbox on an upgrade sheet for a customizable card you own, even if it is not in play. Max once per game for each investigator.

Either (choose one): - Add X tokens to the chaos bag to add X tokens to the chaos bag. - Remove X and X tokens from the chaos bag to heal X total horror from among cards at your location.

Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.

Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.

Choose a level 0 card in your discard pile. Add the chosen card to your hand.

Seal (0). Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge or release a chaos token sealed here: Fight. This attack uses instead of and deals +1 damage. You get +2 for this attack for each "0" token sealed on Shards of the Void. For each "0" token revealed during this attack, seal that token on Shards of the Void and this attack deals 1 additional damage.

Uses (5 charges). Spend 1 charge: Fight. This attack uses instead of . You get +1 for this attack. If a symbol is revealed during this attack, this attack deals +2 damage.

During a skill test on a Spell card, exhaust Spirit Athame: You get +2 skill value for this test. Exhaust Spirit Athame: Fight. You get +2 for this attack.

Fast. Play during any window. Add 3 tokens to the chaos bag. Then, add 3 tokens to the chaos bag and draw 1 card.

Fast. After The Red-Gloved Man enters play: Choose two of your skills. While The Red-Gloved Man is in play, raise the base value of each of those skills to 6. Forced - At the end of the mythos phase: Discard The Red-Gloved Man.

You may play Winging It from your discard pile. If you do, shuffle it into your deck after resolving its effects. Investigate. Your location gets -1 shroud for this investigation. (If you played Winging It from your discard pile, discover 1 additional clue if you succeed.)